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                                            An accepted <a onclick="javascript:doLink('TeamBuild');" href="TeamBuild.htm">build</a> indicates minimum quality standards are successfully met and the build is ready for further work. To accept a build, make sure compilation and build verification tests cover all of the basic functionality and run successfully. Monitor and maintain the build verification tests to add basic tests for functionality completed in the last iteration.</p>
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                                        <li class="bodyitem"><b>The build is setup and runs nightly.</b><br/>
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                                            <tr><td width="36"><p class="step2">1</p></td><td width="20%"><p class="p1a">Manage Build Tests</p></td><td><ul class="tableitem_unit"><li class="tableitem">Remove or add sections of the build verification tests that measure the functionality necessary to deem the build self-test and not self-toast.</li><li class="tableitem">Add tests to the build verification test folder and check in the tests. Make sure the new compilation and build verification tests run successfully.</li><li class="tableitem">Monitor the iteration tests to understand progress within the iteration.</li><li class="tableitem">Post iteration test results.</li></ul><div style="margin: -4px 0px 6px"><img height="1" src="images/rule1.gif" width="100%"/></div></td></tr>
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